History of the World: Part 1 (Blu-ray) R
Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!
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History of the World: Part I
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2010
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman & Sid Caesar | |
Directed by | Mel Brooks | |
Composition by | John Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Hearing some of those old, beloved one-liners again made me smile, but they did not have the power to make me laugh anew.
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Combustible Celluloid
What [Brooks] takes to be the glorious folk humor that modern people have repressed looks to many of us like the tired jokes that were yawned off the burlesque stage 50 years ago.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
... an entertaining mishmash of skits which finds Mel Brooks back in lively form, both for better and for worse.
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Washington Post
Mel Brooks' The History of the World: Part I contains plenty of belly-shaking laughs.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Brooks' fractured History is salvaged by the tuneful 'Inquisition.'
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What Would Toto Watch?
Rating: 2/4 --
Mel Brooks's movie History of the World, Part 1 is a rambling, undisciplined, sometimes embarrassing failure from one of the most gifted comic filmmakers around.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: C- --
Brooks proved that increasing the vulgarity level doesn't necessarily translate into more laughs. Gag after gag falls flat in this potty-mouthed dud.
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FulvueDrive-in.com
Product Description:
In this spoof of great moments in history from the dawn of humanity through the French Revolution, director Mel Brooks delivers a twisted history lesson through his signature satirical, madcap humor. Funny, vulgar, and narrated by the great Orson Welles, HISTORY OF THE WORLD - PART I tells the progress of humankind as cave dweller, tap-dancing slave, and biblical hero. The most famous bit in the film features Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. Other highlights include a hilarious "Hitler on Ice" sequence and other outrageous comic situations, unbelievably silly jokes, and inspired casting (Sid Caesar, Gregory Hines, and Madeline Kahn included), with the film itself mimicking several historical Hollywood epics, most notably THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, as well as a brilliant parody of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 884
- UPC: 024543657927
- Shipping Weight: 0.11/lbs (approx)
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